Managers of Wealth

Does your Boss Hate You?

Almost one in every four employees (39%) thinks that their boss dislikes them

Dear Tax Professional – How was it for you?

There was a big sigh of relief on Friday from tax professionals involved in completing tax returns for individuals, having worked long into the January evenings and weekends.

The growing trends in cybercrime and how to protect your firm by Sheila Pancholi, Partner, Baker Tilly

Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities on the planet. It covers a huge range of illegal activity including financial scams, computer hacking, virus attacks and stalking by e-mail.

Value, in four charts by Tim Price

Fed and ECB policies aim to reassure financial market participants rather than keeping them guessing. In the “good old days”, before quantitative easing, forward guidance and zero real interest rates, investors, asset managers, traders and ban

Are we entering the third phase of the Great Financial Crisis?

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard answers your questions about the global economy amid tightening in the US and China, ECB inaction and emerging markets turmoil

A Lesson for Today’s Shadow Bankers—From 1763

Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase and Gerald Hassell’s Bank of New York Mellon could learn a thing or two from a financial crisis that occurred some time ago—in 1763, to be precise.

Wealth X CEO: Why Money And Power Go Hand-In-Hand

Wealth, among other things, buys the ability to innovate without constraints or boundaries, writes Mykolas D. Rambus, CEO of Wealth X.

Wealthy South Africans eye London properties

Political and financial upheaval in some of the world’s largest emerging economies is driving a new wave of rich migrants to London’s supercharged property market as a place to park their wealth.

market risk has shot up since year's start - Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management

REMAP portfolios seek diversification in infrastructure & currencies

Barclays set to reignite bonus row amid inquiry

Barclays is poised to defy calls for pay restraint by lifting staff bonuses by at least 10 per cent despite an expected slide in profits

Deutsche Bank caps cash bonus at 300,000 euros

Deutsche, which told staff about bonuses on Wednesday, said last week total pay in its corporate banking & securities division was 5.3 billion euros for 2013, down 14.4 pct from 2012.

Rothschild Market Perspective February 2014

Equities more attractive than other asset classes; portfolio hedges increased as valuations stretched

SFAMA Publishes Review Of 2013, Outlook Finds Asset Management Strategy On Track, Challenges Lie Ahead

Although challenging, 2013 was a good year for the Swiss funds and asset management industry.

Is wealth management what is wanted?

Private banks are in danger of losing a grip on what makes them attractive to the wealthy

Richard Buxton - Renowned fund manager shares his latest views

Legendary investor Sir John Templeton once said: "It is impossible to produce a superior performance unless you do something different from the majority." No one encapsulates this more than Richard Buxton, one of the most successful fund manager

Cold Turkey - by Johannes Oehri, Financial Economist from LGT Capital Management

Global financial markets have been very nervous since mid of January.

Coutts Wealth Watch: Outlook 2014 – sticking to our guns

Market performance in the first month of the year has been a challenge to our 2014 Outlook. But equities are still our first choice, and we see limited upside for bonds

Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - Emerging markets - crisis what crisis?

While there are undoubtedly strains in some emerging markets, to read the headlines would suggest there was a pending meltdown.

Blowing away the complacency and a Happy New Year of the Wooden Horse by Justin Urquhart Stewart

I have found it a very interesting contrast this year to last January. Then in 2013 the news was filled with dire warnings of doom and gloom, as the IMF and the OECD both pointed to lower figures

The wealth manager interview: StJohn Gardner, Arbuthnot Latham

The performance caps eight years since Gardner joined the firm and brought sweeping changes to its investment proposition, shifting what he saw as a “UK stockbroker-style outfit” to a full service private bank.

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